Patents by Inventor Shuichi Kato

Shuichi Kato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180092519
    Abstract: An infrared fluorescence observation device includes a light source configured to irradiate visible light and excitation light including a longer wavelength band than the visible light, an imaging unit on which generates a first image on the basis of second light obtained by attenuating a wavelength band including the excitation light from first light emitted from the subject irradiated with at least the excitation light and generates a second image on the basis of third light obtained by eliminating only the wavelength band of the fluorescence including a longer wavelength band than the excitation light from the second light, and a signal processing unit generates a third image according to light of a wavelength band including the fluorescence using the first image and the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9763560
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an endoscope scope insertion portion having an insertion portion configured to be inserted inside a living organism; an extracorporeal device which is disposed outside the living organism; a first scope-side signal connecting portion that is provided on the endoscope scope insertion portion and has a first electrode; and a cylindrical first extracorporeal-side signal connecting portion that is provided on the extracorporeal device and has a second electrode, the first extracorporeal-side signal connecting portion configured to engage with the first scope-side signal connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kato, Susumu Kawata, Makoto Honda
  • Publication number: 20170251912
    Abstract: An endoscope device includes a light source which generates visible light and excitation light, an imaging unit, an arithmetic unit which generates a visible light image signal according to a first signal and a fluorescence image signal according to a second signal and a third signal, and a switching unit. The imaging unit includes an excitation light, cut filter, a first image sensor, and a second image sensor. The excitation light cut filter transmits the visible light and fluorescence, and filters out the excitation light. A plurality of first photodiodes included in the first image sensor generate the first signal according to the visible light and a second signal according to the fluorescence. A plurality of second photodiodes included in the second image sensor generate the third signal according to the fluorescence transmitted through the plurality of first photodiodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20170227923
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9658567
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20170125476
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a first substrate having first photoelectric converters; a second substrate having second photoelectric converters and laminated on the first substrate; micro lenses disposed on an opposite face facing an imaging lens among faces of the second substrate and which forms an image of light passing through the imaging lens; and a light shielding layer disposed between the first and second photoelectric converters. The light shielding layer includes: a selection portion provided with an opening portion which selectively allows passage of only light passing through a partial region of a pupil region in an exit pupil of the imaging lens among light passing through the micro lens and transmitted through the second photoelectric converter; and a light shielding portion which shields an entire light passing through the micro lens and transmitted through the second photoelectric converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kato, Yusuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9599921
    Abstract: An image forming device capable of providing precise positional relationship between an exposure unit and a photosensitive body. The exposure unit having an exposure head elongated in a longitudinal direction and having light emitting sections arrayed in the longitudinal direction. The light elements emit light in an optical axis direction. A frame supports the photosensitive body. A positioning protrusion protrudes in the optical axis direction from one of the frame and the exposure unit. A remaining one of the frame and the exposure unit is formed with a positioning part engageable with the positioning protrusion. A biasing unit provides a biasing force that ensures engagement between the positioning protrusion and the positioning part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9521749
    Abstract: A circuit substrate which is capable of decreasing the possibility that the amount of solder in the overall mounting land is uneven and reducing formation of a solder void even when a mounting terminal has a large soldering area. An electronic component having the mounting terminal is mounted on the circuit substrate. A mounting land is connected to the mounting terminal of the electronic component by soldering, and the mounting land has a protruding portion of an insulating material formed so as to protrude from an outer side of the mounting land toward an inner side of the mounting land, and the protruding portion does not divide the mounting land into a plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20160322412
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: a first substrate having a plurality of first photoelectric conversion units; a second substrate having a plurality of second photoelectric conversion units; a microlens that forms an image of light; a selector that selects light that has passed through only one of two pupil regions in an exit pupil of an imaging lens in light passed through the microlens and transmitted through the first photoelectric conversion units; a refractor that refracts the light selected by the selector to a side of the second photoelectric conversion units; a first wiring arranged on the first substrate to transmit signals for imaging signals generated by the plurality of first photoelectric conversion units; and a second wiring arranged on the second substrate to transmit signals for focus detection using a phase difference detection method, which are generated by the plurality of second photoelectric conversion units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamamoto, Shuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20160294984
    Abstract: To provide a server, a client, and a system capable of easily sharing conditions of members or mobile bodies which may affect a plan of the group. A server control device 31 communicates with a first client 10 via a server communication device 35 to recognize information concerning a first user or concerning a first mobile body 1. The server control device 31, in a case where the information is information indicating that a condition of the first user or first mobile body 1 is under a specific condition (FIG. 4/STEP 320—YES or FIG. 4/STEP 330—YES), transmits a notification that the condition of the first user or first mobile body 1 is under the specific condition to the second client 20 via the server communication device 35 (FIG. 4/STEP 324 or FIG. 3/STEP 332).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Yusuke HAMANO, Masahiro WASHIZU, Masaharu SENNO, Takeshi KONNO, Shuichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20160274495
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9395680
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9377746
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a casing including a side wall having an opening; a drawer member configured to support a plurality of cartridges in such a manner as to allow the cartridges to be detachably attached thereto, and to be movable through the opening from an inside position in which the drawer member is located inside the casing to an outside position in which the drawer member is located outside the casing in a moving direction; and a leg portion configured to support the casing. In this image forming apparatus, the leg portion includes a portion located downstream from the opening in the moving direction of the drawer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Kato, Seiichi Senda, Atsushi Kato, Masanari Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9366992
    Abstract: A developer container may include a container body accommodating developer, a conveyance member, and a rotation member having a rotary shaft and an elastic part supported by the rotation member and configured to convey the developer. The container body may include a first support part to which the rotary shaft is loosely fitted, and a second support part that supports the rotary shaft. The container body may further include a sliding contact part that the elastic part sliding-contacts while being elastically deformed when the conveyance member is being rotated. In some examples, a distance from a center of the rotary shaft to a leading end of the elastic part gradually increases from the one end portion-side of the rotary shaft towards the other end portion-side of the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Hashimoto, Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9323174
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive body on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing cartridge arranged below the photosensitive body and having a developing roller configured to supply a developing agent to the photosensitive body and to be rotatable about an rotation shaft of the developing roller; a support body configured to removably support the developing cartridge; and a pressing member configured to press the rotation shaft of the developing roller so as to press the developing roller against the photosensitive body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9325882
    Abstract: An image pickup apparatus which is capable of preventing disconnection of connectors for a circuit substrate, on which an image pickup device is mounted, without making optical adjustment difficult. A fixing member is fixed to the image pickup device. One end of a flexible substrate is connected to the circuit substrate via a connector connecting portion. A protective member is fixed to the fixing member so as to cover the connector connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9280126
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises: a casing including a side wall having an opening; a drawer member configured to support a plurality of cartridges in such a manner as to allow the cartridges to be detachably attached thereto, and to be movable through the opening from an inside position in which the drawer member is located inside the casing to an outside position in which the drawer member is located outside the casing in a moving direction; and a leg portion configured to support the casing. In this image forming apparatus, the leg portion includes a portion located downstream from the opening in the moving direction of the drawer member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Kato, Seiichi Senda, Atsushi Kato, Masanari Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9274457
    Abstract: A developing cartridge having a first side plate and a second side plate spaced opposite from the first side plate, a developer carrying member rotatably supported between the side plates, a developer supplying member rotatably supported between the side plates, a input member to which driving force is input rotatably supported by the first side plate, a primary developing gear to which the driving force is transferred provided on the developer carrying member at the first side plate, a secondary developing gear to which the driving force is transferred provided on the developer carrying member at the second side plate, and a supply gear to which the driving force is transferred provided on the developer supplying member at the second side plate, wherein the input member and the supply gear are arranged so that their projections in the direction of the rotation axis of the developer supplying member overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Publication number: 20160026150
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9201388
    Abstract: In a developer cartridge, a base portion may be fixed to a surface of one side of a frame, and extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in the first direction. The one end of the first portion is connected to the other end of the base portion. A second portion may extend from one end thereof to another end thereof in a direction opposite to the second direction. The one end of the second portion is connected to the other end of the first portion. An electrode for the cartridge is deformable such that a distance between the base portion and the second portion can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Kato